Tuesday, April 06, 2010

David Schmoeller's "Puppet Master"

According to the deeply cohesive mythos of 1989's "Puppet Master," there is one question that has haunted Pharaohs, Nazis, Gypsies, Hoteliers, Anthropologists, and Libidinous Parapsychologists since the dawn of time:
"Is there anything scarier than tiny little puppets?"
The answer seems to be:
"Sure. Malfunctioning elevators, unwelcome dinner banter, and fashions that mark that awkward phase when we were heading out of 'Miami Vice' and entering 'L.A. Law.'"
I mean, they're TINY LITTLE PUPPETS! You can step on them or kick them across the room while they try to give you splinters in the shins.

"Puppet Master" is lovable, though, the sort of B-flick "House of the Devil" looks backward on. And what a cast! (Not the humans- who all look like porn industry rejects.)
I'm talking Blade, Pinhead, and Tunneller!


Worth the three cents of admission: the big scene with Leecher, a sexy puppet girl who, inexplicably, vomits leeches out of her cute little wooden mouth onto a naked (male) scientist's nipples.
Don't ask.



4 comments:

caroline_hagood said...

Wow, Leecher is really something else, huh?

Hansel Castro said...

Re: Caroline
Some movies should be five minutes long- three of this movie's five good minutes belong to Leecher.

Bryan said...

You gave this movie more thought than the folks who made it. Um...congrats?

Hansel Castro said...

Re: Bryan
You're wrong! The makers had this whole intricate backstory with time-traveling puppets who fight Hitler or something... They just, you know, forgot to put that in the actual movie. They lent me the set, so there's like 8 more where this one came from!

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